September 4th, 2024
This is the anniversary of hiring the first "newsboy" in the United States. Barney Flaherty was 10 years old when he answered an advertisement in the New York Sun in 1833 for positions vending that newspaper. Newsboys were popular for many years, and newspapers in many communities are still at least delivered by enterprising children as well as men and women.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_Carrier_Day